Georg Simon Ohm

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A natural law found by Georg Simon Ohm is called Ohms law and it has fundamental importance to electrical engineering.

3. Electric Circuits 1991
The unit of the resistance is called ohm in honour of the German physicist Georg Simon Ohm (1789 - 1854) and abbreviated by the Greek letter

2. Fundamental Quantities of Electrical Engineering 1991
People who all their lives have lived by means of the devices he has invented and inspired, people who have forgotten there were an Alessandro Volta, an André Marie Ampère, a Georg Simon Ohm in, a

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Hundreds of years later, Alessandro Volta, Andre-Marie Ampere and Georg Simon Ohm conducted significant work on the nature of electrical currents.

Taipei Times 2008
An ohm is a unit of electrical resistance (named for the German physicist, Georg Simon Ohm), and a mho is a unit of conductivity of a body whose resistance is one ohm.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XXIII No 4 1998